George BlandDurham University Library Special Collections Catalogue (1806–1880) was a nineteenth-century English clergyman. He was Archdeacon of LindisfarneDurham Cathedral Library Additional Manuscripts then Archdeacon of Northumberland.National Archives
Life Bland's mother was a sister of Edward Maltby, Bishop of Chichester then Durham.‘LOCAL NOTES’ The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, February 20, 1880; Issue 10703 He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1831.‘Ordinations Lincoln’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, March 12, 1831; Issue 4 He began his ecclesiastical career as Domestic Chaplain to his uncle at Chichester‘THE CHURCH, The Essex Standard, and Colchester and County Advertiser (Colchester, England), Saturday, October 15, 1831; Issue 41 after which he was the incumbent at St Peter, Slinfold.Geograph In 1844 Maltby appointed him Archdeacon of Lindisfarne.The Times (London, England), Monday, May 20, 1844; pg. 1; Issue 18614 He married Frances Sibyl Collinson in 1846.
He was transferred to Northumberland (to which a residentiary canonry at Durham Cathedral was annexed) in 1853, gaining also the Rectory of St Mary-le-Bow, Durham in 1856.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1860 (p. 55) and died in post on 17 February 1880.‘SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS’ The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Wednesday, February 18, 1880; Issue 4677 His wife died in 1897.ayeltd
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